Tag: Hugo Chávez

• Friday, July 1st 2011 - 03:26 UTC

  Chávez from Cuba tells Venezuela he is undergoing cancer treatment

  

  Doctors detected and removed a cancerous tumor from Hugo Chavez's body, the Venezuelan president announced in a speech broadcast on state-run VTV Thursday night.

• Thursday, June 30th 2011 - 01:10 UTC

  Chavez health mystery increases as major summit and celebrations are suspended

  

  Venezuela has suspended a regional summit scheduled for 5 July, --which also coincides with the 200th anniversary of the country’s independence--, amid continuing speculation over the state of health of President Hugo Chavez.

• Tuesday, June 28th 2011 - 06:25 UTC

  Growing demands for information on President Chavez health condition

  

  Demands by Venezuela's opposition for information on President Hugo Chavez's health grew louder Monday and bond prices rallied on speculation the populist leader could be seriously ill.

• Sunday, June 26th 2011 - 02:51 UTC

  Contradictory reports on the health condition of President Chavez

  

  Venezuela’s Deputy Foreign Affairs minister Temir Porras said on Saturday President Hugo Chavez was rapidly recovering from surgery and described reports to the contrary published in the Miami press as ‘day dreaming’

• Friday, June 24th 2011 - 19:59 UTC

  Venezuela’s Chavez health and prolonged recovery turns into political controversy

  

  Two weeks after surgery in Cuba, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez is “stronger than ever” but will not rush home until he is ready, announced Defence minister General Carlos Mata Figueroa.

• Friday, May 27th 2011 - 08:58 UTC

  Chavez sacks half of PDVSA board following a 500 million USD fraud

  

  Venezuela’s government giant oil corporation sacked half its board of directors Thursday after PDVSA ’s pension fund lost about 500 million US dollars in a Ponzi scheme linked to a Connecticut-based investor.

• Monday, May 23rd 2011 - 04:06 UTC

  Peruvian president says he’s rather fond of Chavez with whom fights are over

  

  Peruvian outgoing president Alan García said on Sunday that the days of rivalry and fights with his peer Hugo Chavez are over and admitted he’s quite fond of the Venezuelan president whom he considers a man “respectful of institutions and power”.

• Tuesday, April 26th 2011 - 13:59 UTC

  “Cristina Kirchner copies Peron’s model”, says The Wall Street Journal

  

  The influential The Wall Street Journal published Monday a piece in which the columnist asks if Argentina can stand another four years of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. Columnist Mary Anastasia O’Grady who for years has been critical of the Kirchner couple states that few experts trust Argentina can resist four more years of “demagoguery and its creeping authoritarianism”

• Monday, April 25th 2011 - 06:59 UTC

  Chavez, with eyes on his 2012 re-election bid, hikes oil windfall tax

  

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez hiked an oil windfall tax in a move that raises government income ahead of the 2012 presidential election, but puts a heavy load on oil companies.

• Sunday, April 24th 2011 - 01:30 UTC

  Venezuela formally exits Andean nations and waits for Mercosur incorporation

  

  Venezuela formally exited the Andean Community of Nations, CAN, Friday when it stopped belonging to the free trade zone which for 38 years eliminated a full range of tariffs among its members (Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and Colombia), announced the Venezuelan Foreign Affairs ministry.